The Islamic State is rapidly getting new recruits from a certain religious group. Since President Obama has told us that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam, we must try to figure out what religious group these people are from.

The Islamic State is expanding beyond its base in Syria and Iraq to establish militant affiliates in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, and Libya, American intelligence officials assert, raising the prospect of a new global war on terror. Intelligence officials estimate that the group’s fighters number 20,000 to 31,500 in Syria and Iraq. There are less formal pledges of support from “probably at least a couple hundred extremists” in countries such as Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Yemen, according to an American counterterrorism official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential information about the group.

In Afghanistan last week, an American drone strike killed a former Taliban commander, Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and had recently begun recruiting fighters. But that pledge seemed to indicate less a major expansion of the Islamic State than a deepening of internal divisions in the Taliban.

Abdul was a mullah. Is mullah a Hindu religious title?

Although there is little or no public evidence that the Islamic State’s leaders in Syria and Iraq have practical control over its North African provinces, its influence is already apparent in their operations and is destabilizing the countries around them.

They have new followers in Syria and Iraq. Most of the population in Syria is Presbyterian, and in Iraq, mostly Jehovah's Witnesses.

A publication released by the central group last week included a photograph of fighters in Libya with its affiliate there parading 20 Egyptian Christian captives in the Islamic State’s trademark orange jumpsuits, indicating at least a degree of communication.

They have fighters in Libya, and most Libyans are Baptists.

In Egypt, the Sinai-based extremist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis sent emissaries to the Islamic State in Syria last year to seek financial support, weapons and tactical advice, as well as the publicity and recruiting advantages that might come with the Islamic State name, according to Western officials briefed on classified intelligence reports. Ansar Beit al-Maqdis began adopting the Islamic State’s signature medieval punishment, beheadings, even before a formal merger. After becoming the Sinai Province of the Islamic State in November, the group’s online videos and statements claiming responsibility for attacks began to take on more of the sophistication and gore associated with its new parent group.

Ansar Beit al-Maqdis is a well-known militant Quaker group.

No more sarcasm -- you get my point.

Tens if not hundreds of thousands of people are joining the Islamic State across the Middle East, in places where 99% of the population is Muslim. You don't see thousands of people joining IS in European countries (except for Arab immigrants, and a few cute American girls in love with Islamic Fascism.). That's because all the members of IS are Muslim, and there are hundreds of thousands of them, especially if you include other terrorist groups like Hizb’allah and HAMAS and CAIR.

The fact is that a substantial minority of Muslims support terrorists, and their version of Islam is a radical fundamentalist one. How can we fight a war if we can't even say who we are fighting? It's as if we were fighting World War II and President Roosevelt, afraid to single out Nazis or Germans, merely referred to "the battle against some confused Europeans".

So, everyone, all together, let's say it one more time: we're fighting a substantial minority of Muslims, who say they're Muslims, whose interpretation of Islam is hostile to everyone else on the planet.

Do you think we will see any Republican presidential candidate say this? Probably not.

Pedro Gonzales, the editor of Newsmachete.com, the conservative news site, also wrote about why Obama loves to release terrorists from Gitmo.